Let's talk about another nice addition to Warp Stabilizer VFX.…When Warp Stabilizer gets its tiny little claws on pieces of footage, it really…doesn't know much about your camera move, is it a smooth push-in or…walk-through or fly-through or you just kind of jerky going back and forth as…you are looking at a scene.…Take this walk-through of a forest which I am going to RAM preview with Warp…Stabilizer currently turned off.…You will notice that there is a bit of left-right rotation as this person is…walking through these trees.…Well Warp Stabilizer at pretty much its default settings --all I did was…increased Smoothness to 100%-- stabilized a shot like this.…

It has removed a lot of that left-right rotation, but you notice a little lunge, right…there is a lunge in this shot.…This is Warp Stabilizer not being quite sure on how to correct or stabilize this footage.…So it's using a combination of rotation, position, warpage, and scale.…That's what's resulting in this little lunge in the shot right through there.…

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11/20/2014

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4/4/2013

Veteran After Effects user Chris Meyer shares real-world production and workflow advice as he demonstrates the newest features in Adobe After Effects CC. Chris reviews the streamlined connection to MAXON CINEMA 4D and the Refine Edge tool for creating mattes around hair and other partially transparent areas, and reveals how to get more accurate tracks and stabilizations with Reverse Stabilization and ground planes. He also reviews the upgraded Warp Stabilizer and 3D Camera Tracker and important new usability features such as layer snapping.

The September 2013 update brought the new Rigid Mask Tracker, as well as additional ways to scale up footage cleanly, while the highlight of the December 2013 update was the ability to convert parametric shape layers to Bézier paths, and Bézier paths into shape layers. The NAB 2014 update shows off important new integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and Typekit, as well major updates to effects. Smaller yet still important new and enhanced features in each release are also touched on throughout. As always, Chris doesn't just show you where these new features are, but how to apply them to your own projects, along with preferred working practices and potential gotchas.

Note: This course was created and produced by Chris and Trish Meyer. We are honored to host this content in our library.

A: We twelve new movies, covering what's changed in After
Effects CC since the May 2013 initial release, the changes released in October
2013, and the changes announced at the 2014 NAB Show, such as Premiere Pro and
Typekit integration, and effects masks.

Q: This course was updated on 11/20/14. What changed?

A: Four movies were updated to reflect changes in After Effects CC 2014.1. Additionally, seven new movies were added, covering changes to the interface, the release of CINEWARE v2 and CINEMA 4D Lite R16, updates to mocha, Dynamic Link color management with Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, and more.